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My sister has a final project called a Chemistry Scavenger Hunt where students are given a list of chemistry-related things to find, such as colloids and bases. Well, #22 was "What is the metal whose 2+ ion forms a substance that will make a blue aqueous solution?" So my sister used a 2014 Lincoln Cent since the answer was copper. Then I said, "No! That's not pure copper; it's just copper-plated zinc!" I then saw a pile of cents on her desk and proceded to pull a 1980 cent from the pille. I tossed it at her and said, "This is solid copper (I know it's not pure)." She then gave me a weird look... Yay education!  Would you guys have done the same thing? |
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On another note, I tell my friends to save any dime, nickel, quarter from before 1964 and any penny before 1982.
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The mint has fooled your sister along with millions of other people. What is the point of making a fake cent, plating it with what you would think the whole coin should be made out of. Well it costs less and does this mean that more things will be fake in the future because of being worth too much. It frustrates me that because of the fact they want to save money people like your sister sees coins as something they are not. What kind of world are we living in!  Edited by Normic67
05/10/2015 6:38 pm
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On another note, I tell my friends to save any dime, nickel, quarter from before 1964 and any penny before 1982. partially right: any dime, quarter, or half dollar from 1964 and before (need to included 1964), and the War Nickels of 1942-43 are the only ones with some silver. Some 1982 cents were copper and some weren't, so you can include some 1982 cents. |
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Of course, I would have done the same thing. And I expect I would have gotten the same 'weird look' too.
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A Coin Nerd is a guy who pulls his loupe from his pocket to examine the change he just received while sitting in a bar.
Not that I'd know anything about that.
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Hey, hey, I resemble that remark... ok, it was Subway, not a bar, but...
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Fuzzy, yeah I know, I typed that in a bit of a rush. War Nickels were 35% silver. |
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The plating on modern cents is pure electrolytic copper, though.
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A Coin Nerd is a guy who pulls his loupe from his pocket to examine the change he just received while sitting in a bar.
...which led to the invention of the loupe with a built-in light. Seriously, I TRY to wait until I get home but it is beyond my control. |
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I love the look cashiers give while I'll look at change that is handed back to me. They're always like, did I not give you the right change, and I'm like no I'm just a coin nerd lol.
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Quote:So my sister used a 2014 Lincoln Cent since the answer was copper. Then I said, "No! That's not pure copper; it's just copper-plated zinc!" I then saw a pile of cents on her desk and proceeded to pull a 1980 cent from the pile. I tossed it at her and said, "This is solid copper (I know it's not pure)." She then gave me a weird look... A combination of coin nerd, chemistry geek and pedantic literalist wouldn't have said that, because of the impurities in the bronze alloy. Rather, they'd have pulled out a large cent or Half Cent they happened to be carrying around with them, and said "Here, this one's pure copper - America hasn't issued a pure copper coin in over 150 years". Why, no, I don't know any coin-nerd-chemistry-geek-pedantic-literalists... Not at all... Oh, by the way, I fixed your spelling for you in the above quote... Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Would you guys have done the same thing? Absolutely.  |
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The plating on modern cents is pure electrolytic copper, though. Until the plating solution becomes too contaminated by zinc dissolved from the blanks Then the future cents get plated with brass. Edited by Conder101
05/11/2015 11:47 am
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If only we could go back to having gold coins... Wouldn't that be nice!
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TypeCoin971793 posted:
"I then saw a pile of cents on her desk and proceded to pull a 1980 cent from the pile.
Would you guys have done the same thing?" I would have to say no as my sister would never have let me in her room in the first place...  |
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